Jamestown Advance Products, with assistance from the town of Ellicott and the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency, will be applying for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant funding for an expansion project at its location at 2855 Girts Road located in the Airport Industrial Park. A public hearing on the grant application has been scheduled at 6 p.m. Monday, July 19. P-J photo by Dennis Phillips

The town of Ellicott, in coordination with the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency, will host a public hearing next month on a proposal to apply for federal funding for an expansion project at Jamestown Advanced Products.

The public hearing is set for 6 p.m. Monday, July 19, on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant application the town and IDA will be submitting.

Patrick McLaughlin, town supervisor, said Jamestown Advance Products is applying for the federal funding for an expansion project at its location, 2855 Girts Road, located in the Airport Industrial Park. He said if everything goes to plan, the board will hold the public hearing and then approve a resolution to submit the CDBG application during the meeting next month.

In other business:

¯ McLaughlin said the board heard an update from Eric Weiss of Clark Patterson Lee about the Fluvanna sewer project. McLaughlin said Clark Patterson Lee has completed a study on the sewer project and is in the process of applying for state and federal grant funding. McLaughlin said the project would take place along Fluvanna Avenue between the town border with the city of Jamestown and Townline Road.

¯ McLaughlin said the board also discussed the federal stimulus funding the town and villages of Celoron and Falconer will be receiving from the American Recovery Act. He said the town is receiving regular updates on how much funding the town and villages will be receiving. All three municipalities will be receiving two payments during the next two years totaling $910,000. He added that, currently, the town hasn’t been told yet by state officials how much funding will be going to both villages.

“That is the information we are waiting to hear about so we can notify the villages about how much funding they will be receiving,” he said.

Mclaughlin said town officials might possibly be told by the end of next month how much each village will be receiving.

¯ The town board also discussed the invoice it received from SOLitude Lake Management for the Aquathol K herbicide that was used to treat the curly-leaf pondweed in the south basin of Chautauqua Lake last month. McLaughlin said SOLitude applied herbicides along 160 acres, with 113.9 acres being in the town and 46.1 being in the village of Celoron. He said the total bill for the herbicide treatment was $48,928. He added the Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance funded both the town and the village a grant of $30,000, which the alliance received from local foundations. McLaughlin said town officials will receive 71.1% of the $30,000 grant and Celoron officials will receive 29.9%.